Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Chelsea Station Issue 4 - Deadline for Submission October 14, 2012

Deadline for Issue 4 of Chelsea Station, a new magazine of gay writing, is October 14, 2012. The magazine includes original and unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, memoir, humor, narrative travelogue, interviews, and reviews (books, theater, television, and film) relating to gay literature and gay men. Submissions should be sent to info@chelseastationeditions.com. Manuscripts should be emailed as Word attachments. Please include your name, address, and e-mail contact information on the first page of your document. Please also include a brief bio at the end of your submission. Please do not send more than one prose work or more than four poems for consideration. Please query if you would like to submit work for consideration in more than one genre for an issue. For more information visit http://www.chelseastationeditions.com/ChelseaStation-ALiteraryJournal.html.

Sunday, August 05, 2012

Chelsea Station Issue 3 now available

The third issue of Chelsea Station, the popular new literary magazine of gay writing, edited by Jameson Currier, features twelve short stories, ten poems, and essays, reviews and other writing relating to gay literature. Contributors hail from New York, Canada, Scotland, France, Brazil, China, California, Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Provincetown, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Istanbul, and Paris.

Contributors include George Bixby, Mu Cao, Alan Chin, Steven Cordova, Aaron Crippen, Mike Dressel, Michael Graves, Aaron Hamburger, Richard Johns, Amos Lassen, David Lewis, Jeff Lindemann, Jeff Mann, Kelly McQuain, David Derbin Nolta, Roberto Carlos Ortiz, J.M. Parker, Rogério Meireles Pinto, Dennis Rhodes, Raymond Soltysek, Jonathan Vatner, Vicente R. Viray, Ian Young and Stephen Zerance.

Print and digital issues are available from a variety of retailers. A single copy print issue is $15. A single digital issue is $7.99 and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and lit formats.

Print and digital subscriptions are also available through the Chelsea Station Editions bookstore, located at http://chelseastationeditions.bigcartel.com/.

Sunday, March 04, 2012

March Publishing Notes

The buzz: Charles Silverstein has posted several videos of readings from his memoir For the Ferryman and now has his own You Tube Channel. The videos include many historical and personal photos of LGBT history and of Charles with his friends and his longtime partner William Bory.

This month Chelsea Station Editions releases My Movie, a new collection of short stories by David Pratt. Also out this month is Issue 2 of Chelsea Station, the new literary magazine of gay writing. Contributors include Eric Andrews-Katz, Nicholas Boggs, Perry Brass, Tom Cardamone, Anthony R. Cardno, Lewis DeSimone, Michael Graves, Charles Green, Jonathan Harper, Matthew Hittinger, Wayne Hoffman, Lee Houck, Daniel M. Jaffe, Richard Johns, Michael T. Luongo, Raymond Luczak, Jeffrey Luscombe, Jeff Mann, Jon Marans, Stephen Mead, Jarrett Neal, Eric Nguyen, David Pratt, Trumbull Rogers, Robert Siek, Charles Silverstein, and Scott Wiggerman.

Handtype Press has reissued 10th anniversary editions of two books by Raymond Luczak, Silence Is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness and This Way to the Acorns: Poems.

Computer Face, a solo show by Kirl Read, plays March 23-24 and 30-31 at the The Garage, 975 Howard btwn 5th/6th, in San Francisco.

Jim Provenzo has released a new novel, a coming of age story titled Every Time I Think of You.

Ken Coleman, author of the new novel The Ripple Effect, can be found online at http://www.kencoleman.me.

Peter Cameron will be reading from his new novel, Coral Glynn, March 19 at the Boston Public Library and April 5 at 192 Books in Manhattan.

Souvenir Spoon Books has released Gregg Shapiro: 77, a collection of poetry from the author.

In 2013 Ecco will release Andrew Sean Greer's new novel Many Worlds in which a young woman living in 1985 receives electroconvulsive therapy for her depression and, as a result, travels through time to parallel worlds.

Minotaur will publish two additional novels in the Roma Sub Rosa series of historical mysteries by Steven Saylor.

Lethe Press will reissue Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett’s Point of Hopes and Scott’s novella Point of Knives. This spring Lethe will also publish Lewis DeSimone’s new novel, The Heart’s History. This month the press also releases Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruit, a new collection from Jerry Wheeler.

The Brooklyn Rail has published an excerpt from Notes of a Crocodile, a coming-of-age novel and cult classic of Taiwanese lesbian literature by the late Qiu Miaojin, who tragically committed suicide at the age of 26. The novel was written in 1994, and the excerpt was translated by Bonnie Hue. The excerpt can be found here.

Larry Closs will read from his new novel Beatitude, Monday, March 12 at Barnes and Noble at 82nd Street and Broadway in Manhattan.

Canadian artist Steve Walker, whose work focused on scenes of men together and were used on many book covers, died in February at the age 50.

British author Adam Mars-Jones was honored with the Hatchet Job of the Year Award for the most scathing book review of 2011. His subject was By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham.

Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto is being bought by a group of more than 20 people who are "faithful to the history of the iconic store." The group includes teachers, government workers, playwrights, musicians, community activists and several former Glad Day employees.

The Rainbow Book Fair will be March 24, 2012 from 11 am to 5:30 pm in New York. Check the Web site (http://rainbowbookfair.org/) for more details on exhibitors, speakers, and events, which next year will take over two floors at the LGBT Center in Manhattan.

Sibling Rivalry Press and the poetry journal Assaracus will sponsor a celebratory reading of more than 25 poets Friday, March 23, 2012 at CLAGS in New York City.

The Outwrite book fair in Washington D.C. has been scheduled for August 3-4, 2012. For more information visit http://www.thedccenter.org/blog/2012/01/volunteers-needed-help-plan-the-outwrite-lgbt-book-fair.html.

In order to have an extra spectacular tenth anniversary celebration in 2013, the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans will be holding a SAS 9.5 from May 18-20, 2012, a fund raising event for the tenth anniversary festival in 2013. The SAS 9.5 agenda includes a book launch cocktail party celebrating its 3rd annual short fiction contest, a series of custom manuscript review sessions, and other special events. The workshop moderates will include Radclyffe, Jeff Mann, Fay Jacobs, and Jameson Currier.

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

February Publishing Notes

The buzz: Little, Brown will publish Elton John's Love is the Cure: Ending the Global AIDS Epidemic, telling "the very personal story of [his] life during the AIDS epidemic, including his agony at seeing friend after friend perish needlessly" as through "his stories of close encounters with people like Ryan White, Freddie Mercury, and many others, he will convey the personal toll AIDS has taken on his life--and his infinite determination to stop its spread." Proceeds will go to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. John will also narrate the audiobook.

Collin Kelley’s new novel, Remain In Light, is one of the 10 finalists for the 2012 Townsend Prize for Fiction. The award will be given at a ceremony in April at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

This month Signal 8 Press is releasing Marshall Moore’s new short story collection, The Infernal Republic. The press has also just released a Kindle-only e-chapbook titled Il look del diavolo containing three short stories that were translated and published in Italian.

This month Twelve Press releases Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Chris Bram, a narrative history of gay men's literature from World War II to the present.

Outwrite Books & Coffeehouse, the LGBT bookstore in Atlanta, has closed. Shelf Awareness, a publishing industry email publication, reported the bookstore had more than $500,000 in debt.

Next month Sibling Rivalry Press will release He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices, a collection of poetry by Stephen S. Mills.

Perry Brass will be writing a monthly column at the Blog "Ask A New Yorker," called The Wisdom of Desire, dealing with some issues the author has dealt with for his book The Manly Art of Seduction. http://askanewyorker.com/blog/perrybrass/the-wisdom-of-desire-time-for-all-you-cavaliers-to-come-out-of-the-closet

Toronto's Glad Day Bookshop, "believed to be the oldest gay and lesbian book store in the world and the first of its kind in Canada" according to the Toronto Star, is up for sale after a drop in sales in 2010.

The January 2012 issue of The Queer Foundation Scholar, is now online.

Contributors from Best Gay Erotica 2012 & Best Lesbian Erotica 2012, including Sinclair Sexsmith, Gregory Norris, Sam Miller, and Kathleen Warnock, will be reading Thursday, February 9th at 7 pm at Bluestockings, 172 Allen St. in the East Village, NYC. Admission is free, though donations are accepted. Books will be on sale, and coffee/tea are available at a small snack bar. http://bluestockings.com/,

The book tour for Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, is about to begin. Stops include Tuesday, February 14, 6 pm at the San Francisco Main Library; February 20 at 7:30 pm at Pegasus Books Downtown in Berkeley, CA; March 5 at 7:30 pm at Powell's on Hawthorne in Portland, OR, and March 14 at 7 pm at Little Sisters in Vancouver, BC.

Ancestors: A Queer Writers of Color Reading has been organized by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán as an off-site event for the 2012 AWP creative writers conference in Chicago. Sponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation, the event is free and open to the public. Thursday, March 1, 2012, from 7 pm to 10pm, Center on Halsted, Chicago. Readers include OluSeyi OluToyin Adebanjo, Nancy Agabian, Ryka Aoki, Tamiko Beyer, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Ching-In Chen, Matthew R. K. Haynes-Kekahuna, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, David Keali'i, Emil Keliane, Janet McAdams, Deborah A. Miranda, Claudia Narváez-Meza, vaimoana litia makakaufaki niumeitolu, Emma Pérez, Jai Arun Ravine, Charles Rice-González, Trish Salah, James Thomas Stevens, D. Antwan Stewart, Max Wolf Valerio, & Jennifer Lisa Vest.

The Rainbow Book Fair will be March 24, 2012 from 11 am to 5:30 pm in New York. Check the Web site (http://rainbowbookfair.org/) for more details on exhibitors, speakers, and events, which next year will take over two floors at the LGBT Center in Manhattan.

Sibling Rivalry Press and the poetry journal Assaracus will sponsor a celebratory reading of more than 25 poets Friday, March 23, 2012 at CLAGS in New York City.

The Outwrite book fair in Washington D.C. has been scheduled for August 3-4, 2012. For more information visit http://www.thedccenter.org/blog/2012/01/volunteers-needed-help-plan-the-outwrite-lgbt-book-fair.html.

In order to have an extra spectacular tenth anniversary celebration in 2013, the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans will be holding a SAS 9.5 from May 18-20, 2012, a fund raising event for the tenth anniversary festival in 2013. The SAS 9.5 agenda includes a book launch cocktail party celebrating its 3rd annual short fiction contest, a series of custom manuscript review sessions, and other special events.

Open Calls: Squares & Rebels, a -new LGBT imprint of Handtype Press, plans to bring out two poetry anthologies in the fall of 2012 devoted to LGBT poets living in the Upper Midwest (MI, MN, ND, SD, or WI). Send 5 to 7 unpublished original poems as a Word file.No simultaneous submissions or reprints, please. Lesbians should submit their work to the editor Kate Lynn Hibbard: hibbarka@gmail.com. Gay men should submit their work to the editor Raymond Luczak: squaresandrebels@gmail.com. Deadline: Friday, May 18, 2012.

Sibling Rivalry Press is seeking submissions for an anthology scheduled for publication in August 2013. This assignment is so gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, edited by Megan Volpert, will be the first-ever anthology to feature an international roster of LGBTIQ poets writing about and from the teacher's perspective. Whether elementary or collegiate, public or private, the school is an institutional battleground for representations of queer culture. This book will examine the joyous burden that is the experience of LGBTIQ teachers, an inherently valuable and until now relatively invisible piece of the educational puzzle. Submit up to five previously unpublished poems. Poems must engage some aspect of teaching, but need not be explicitly queer-themed. Author must identify as LGBTIQ. Submission period is open January 1 through June 1, 2012. Authors can expect reply by July 1, 2012.for more details visit: http://www.thisassignmentissogay.com/.

Inspired by Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement, editor Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is seeking submissions of We Are Not Just the 99%: Queering the Occupy Movement, Reimagining Resistance. Send rants, manifestoes, journal entries, and essays up to 5000 words, as Word or text file attachments only, to nobodypasses@gmail.com. Include a brief bio. In addition to written nonfiction work, query first before submitting art, photography, posters, flyers, and other forms of visual documentation queering the Occupy movement. The deadline is March 20, 2012.

Monday, January 02, 2012

January Publishing Notes

The buzz: In March of 2012, Chelsea Station Editions will publish My Movie, a collection of short fiction by Lammy winner David Pratt.

This month, Bloomsbury releases Edmund White’s new novel, Jack Holmes and His Friend.

Circumspect Press has published a debut novel by Kergan Edwards-Stout, Songs for the New Depression.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish John Waters' untitled "undercover travel adventure."

Angelo Nikolopoulos' first book of poems, Obscenely Yours, is one of the winners of the Kinereth Gensler Awards and will be published by Alice James Books in May 2013.

Charles Silverman, co-author of The Joy of Gay Sex and a pioneer who helped convince the American Psychological Association being gay was not an illness, will talk about his new memoir For the Ferryman with Perry Bass, an activist and prolific gay writer, Thursday January 5, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Barnes and Noble at 82nd Street and Broadway in New York City.

The Rainbow Book Fair will be March 24, 2012 from 11 am to 5:30 pm in New York. Check the Web site (http://rainbowbookfair.org/) for more details on exhibitors, speakers, and events, which next year will take over two floors at the LGBT Center in Manhattan.

Sibling Rivalry Press and the poetry journal Assaracus will sponsor a celebratory reading of more than 25 poets Friday, March 23, 2012 at CLAGS in New York City.

In order to have an extra spectacular tenth anniversary celebration in 2013, the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans will be holding a SAS 9.5 from May 18-20, 2012, a fund raising event for the tenth anniversary festival in 2013. The SAS 9.5 agenda includes a book launch cocktail party celebrating its 3rd annual short fiction contest, a series of custom manuscript review sessions, and other special events.

Open Calls: Sibling Rivalry Press is seeking submissions for an anthology scheduled for publication in August 2013. This assignment is so gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, edited by Megan Volpert, will be the first-ever anthology to feature an international roster of LGBTIQ poets writing about and from the teacher's perspective. Whether elementary or collegiate, public or private, the school is an institutional battleground for representations of queer culture. This book will examine the joyous burden that is the experience of LGBTIQ teachers, an inherently valuable and until now relatively invisible piece of the educational puzzle. Submit up to five previously unpublished poems. Poems must engage some aspect of teaching, but need not be explicitly queer-themed. Author must identify as LGBTIQ. Submission period is open January 1 through June 1, 2012. Authors can expect reply by July 1, 2012.for more details visit: http://www.thisassignmentissogay.com/.

Inspired by Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement, editor Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is seeking submissions of We Are Not Just the 99%: Queering the Occupy Movement, Reimagining Resistance. Send rants, manifestoes, journal entries, and essays up to 5000 words, as Word or text file attachments only, to nobodypasses@gmail.com. Include a brief bio. In addition to written nonfiction work, query first before submitting art, photography, posters, flyers, and other forms of visual documentation queering the Occupy movement. The deadline is March 20, 2012.